Three women’s college basketball teams from Kentucky are officially in the 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament.

On Monday evening, the #13 Louisville Cardinals, #18 Kentucky Wildcats and WKU Lady Toppers each learned where they will play in the first round and who they will play in the first round.

Louisville will serve as a host for the first and second rounds of the bracket inside the Oklahoma City region.

The Cards will be a #4-seed and will play #13 Chattanooga on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. ET.

Immediately following that match-up, #5-seed Tennessee will play #12-seed Dayton.

The winner of those two games will face each other on Monday inside the KFC Yum! Center with a trip to the Sweet 16 on the line.

Meanwhile, Lexington will serve as a host for the first and second rounds of the bracket inside the Lexington region.

The Kentucky Wildcats will be a #4-seed and will play #13-seed Belmont on Friday at 12 p.m. ET.

Immediately following that match-up, #5-seed Ohio St. will play #12-seed Western Kentucky.

The winner of those two games will face each other on Sunday inside Memorial Coliseum with a trip to the Sweet 16 on the line.

The four #1-seeds in the overall bracket are UConn, Notre Dame, South Carolina and Baylor.

Andrew Chernoff

Andrew is a sports anchor and sports managing editor for Spectrum News. He covers sports all across the state of Kentucky for Sports Night, which airs weeknights at 6:30 and 10:30 on Spectrum News. Andrew was a sports anchor and reporter at KFDM/KBTV in Beaumont, Texas for four years before making the move back home to the Midwest. He is originally from Carmel, Indiana and majored in broadcast journalism and political science at Syracuse University.

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